Manuel bbetos y claveria



Sept. 1, 1925/ 1,551,540

M. BRETOS Y CLA VERIA I FOLDING noon Filed Oct. 15, 1923 Enefos y C/aze/b 7 Patented Sept, 1, 1925.

nNrrEn srA'rEs MANUEL BRETOS Y cLAvERiA, or SANTIAGO nn CUBA, CUBA.

FOLDING DOOR.

Application filed October 15, 1923. Serial no. 668,755.

To all who-m it may concern:

Be it Known that l, li lAnUnL CLAvnnIA,"s11bject of the King of Spain, residing at Gallo 22, Santiago oe Cuba, ,iente, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Folding Doors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metallic folding doors, and has as its principal object, the provision of an improvement to siiich doors, whereby the door can constitute an awning, which, being of metal, asts indefinitely, and at the same time can Other and further adv vention will be brought out c of the specification and with the aid of ti attached drawing, in which the same i ence characters designate the same and wherein,

Figurel is a front elevation showing the raised front of a door provided with the improvements which are the object of the present invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical section on line 2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a similar section showing the door in folded position; i V

Figure l is a section on line if-i: of Figure 2;

Figure 5 is a partial section on line of Fig.2;

Figure 6 is a detailed View of the side elements. 7 V

In said figures of the drawing is shown a. folding door 1 of an ordinary type, whose side rail guides 2 present, at the upper part, extensions or integral branches 3 directed forwardly and slightly downwardly, and also extensions l, from the branches 3 directed downwardly. These have the object of diverting the door 1 from its normal path between the guides 2, and directing it between the branches 3 so as to act as an awning, will be more fully explained. The door can also be directed between th extensions 1 when it is desired to cover a space in front of the doorway occupied by a glass-case, counter, etc.

In line with the branches 3, are placed two guides 5, made of angle irons and fas tened at their backs to brackets (5, pivoted at 7 to a plate 8 secured by screws 9 to Ban'ros Y either side of the doorway and projecting beyond the same. The lower flanges of the flange depending.

rear ends of the. guides 5, are positioned as extensions, as shown at 6, below the lower wings of the branches 8. which act as stops for guides 5. g 7

Between the inclined guide-s formed by the brackets or branches 3 and pivoted arms 5, the door 1 can run until the'lower border 1 of the door; is stopped by an angular plate header 10, secured between the free ends of the guidesb and having its larger On each side of the guides 5,'externally thereof, and along their entire lengths, plates 11 are secured so as to project downward beyond the guides 5, to receive on the interior faces of its projecting portion, a number of narrow vertical plates 12, pivoted at their upper ends, at 13, to the plates 11, and hanging to form awning sides with contacting borders, folded or corded as shown at 12in' Figs. 5 and 6, except at the top. ends, which top ends present bevels 12 to permit free movement of the parts. 1 'To the inner face of the depending flange part of the plate or header 10, is joined the rolled top border of a hanging plate 15, which plate constitutes the front part of the awning.

Secured to the top wing of the plate is a bolt-eye-16 to which is secured one end of a cable 17 which passes under a pulley 18 loosely. mounted on a bracket-arm 19- secured to the middle part of the doorway, which cable is guided by pulleys 1-9, 20 and 21 in the arrangement as shown in Figure 2, or any other convenient one, for placing the free end of the cable 17 within reach of an operators hand. I

By the following, the operation of the device will be clear:

Assuming the parts to be in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, that is, with the folding door. 1 moved down between the guides 3 and 5, it will be sufficient to fold the awning, to pull 011 the cable 17, the door 1 having been run out of the guides 3 and 5. This rotates the guides 5 around their hinges 7, and upwards into the position shown in Fig. 3, where it is clearly shown how the pivoted plate 15 and the pivoted awning sides 12, fold compactly to gether.

On moving the awning downwardly, all

the parts return to the proper position by gravity and it is only necessary to slide the door 1 down between the guides 3 and 5 for the operation to be complete.

Having now described my invention, and one form in which the same is realized, what- I desire to protect by Letters Patent is,

1. In a folding door, a sliding door, a vertical guide frame for the door, and a folding, forwardly projecting guide frame, connected to the vertical guide frame, whereby to receive the door and form an awning.

2. A device according to claim 1, depending, overlapping plates connected to the said projecting guide and forming awning sides, a depending plate hinged across the ends of the projecting guide and forming the awning front, and means for raising the projecting guide, the depending overlapping plates, and the depending plate, when the sliding door is removed from the projecting guide.

3. In a folding door, a door frame, brackets fixed to the frame, grooved door guides fixed to the brackets, forwardly projecting guide portions on the door guides, a header connected acros the ends of the forwardly projecting guitie portions, narrow, depending, plates attached to the projecting portions, a depending plate connected to the header, and a pivot connection be tween the projecting portions and the grooved door guides.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

MANUEL ennros y oiiirvnnm. 

